Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Obama’s Catholic problem
Written on February 6, 2012 – 5:49 pm | by larrylibido
Church officials were already smarting over a ruling late last year denying funding to a 5-year-old program run by an arm of the Catholic bishops’ conference aimed at helping victims of human trafficking. Staffers on a review panel at the Department of Health and Human Services gave high marks to the program, which worked with other organizations such as Jewish Family Services and the Salvation Army to arrange housing, counseling and other much-needed services for abused workers and prostitutes. But the panel was overruled by political appointees who instead announced that they preferred to send federal dollars to organizations promising “family planning and a full range of legally permissible reproductive services.”
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“Religious liberty in our country is in jeopardy.” Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area heard those ominous words from their archbishop read during Masses last Sunday. With similar statements echoing through churches around the country, the Republican candidates for president have taken up the cry. The most recent cause of the bishops’ alarm: the Obama administration’s regulations under the health-care law …